Japanese name: フウリンソウ（風鈴草） Scientific name:Campanula medium
[Overview]
An annual or biennial 60–80 cm tall.
The whole plant is covered with soft hairs.
The stem is erect and often tinged with red.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves; the basal leaves are lanceolate and 12–15 cm long.
The stem leaves are simple and alternate, lanceolate, with bases slightly clasping the stem.
The leaf margins have low serrations.
The flowers are borne in racemes at the stem tips.
The flowers are bell-shaped, 5 cm long, and open sideways to slightly upward; the colors include bluish purple, blue, pink and white.
The corolla is 5-lobed at the tip.
The fruit is a capsule.
[History]
It arrived in Japan around 1870.
[Cultivation]
Propagate from seed.
It dislikes heat and humidity.
It prefers a sunny, well-ventilated, well-drained place that does not receive the afternoon sun.
Water thoroughly when the soil surface dries.
Apply base fertilizer, and give liquid fertilizer during the flowering period.
Remove spent flowers promptly.
Diseases and pests seen include soft rot, powdery mildew, slugs, cutworms, spider mites and aphids.
